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Paper, 'Case in surgery on a leg rotting off' by J Niemeyer

Reference number: CLP/12ii/2

Date: 15 May 1720

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Niemeyer provides details of a severe disease, possibly gangrene, in a man's leg. Niemeyer also details the injuries of this patient's wife, still had a significant wound in her side from an attack by a wild boar when she was young. The account was witnessed by Dr Nottellman and Mr Henzel.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of two extraordinary cases in surgery: communicated by Dr. Steigerthall, F. R. S'.

Written by Niemeyer at Ebstorff [Ebstorf, Lower Saxony, Germany]. Communicated by [Johann Georg] Steigertahl. Read to the Royal Society on 22 December 1720.

Reference number
CLP/12ii/2
Earliest possible date
15 May 1720
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Case in surgery on a leg rotting off' by J Niemeyer, 15 May 1720, CLP/12ii/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_2/paper-case-in-surgery-on-a-leg-rotting-off-by-j-niemeyer, accessed on 20 March 2025

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